Career Support
Highly Personalized Career Services
You come to Berkeley Haas to become a leader who is prepared to turn innovation into impact. We are here to help you identify and pursue the career opportunities that move you forward on that path.
We meet you where you are and partner with you to get you where you’re going. Our small class size means we can collaborate individually with you from beginning to end: helping you identify the industries, roles, and companies that align with your interests, offering coaching to refine your résumé and interviewing skills, and pointing you to assessment tools and resources that support your career goals.
When you are ready to start your job search, we can help you connect to the company, industry, or location that ignites your passion. That includes creating strategies to connect with companies and industries that haven’t yet recruited on campus.
Even better? Career services are available to you over the life of your career, so you can find Berkeley Haas support for every stage.
Committed and Connected Resources
From career coaches to relationship managers, our Career Management Group supports you with a team of 40+ experts who have the skills, intuition, and connections to set you up for success. All of these partners share your goal of putting you on a path for a lifetime of leadership opportunities and impact.
Relationship Managers
Interested in making a connection with a particular recruiter? Curious about MBA hiring trends in your field? Relationship managers bring deep connections to both established firms and up-and-comers in specific industries. They can help you generate leads and understand how different companies in your target field hire and recruit.
Career Coaches
Want help figuring out what you’re good at or where your passions lie? Or how to make the story of “you” its most compelling? Career coaches take the time to truly understand where you want to go and help you frame your career goals, refine your search strategy, and make the transition to presenting yourself as a leader in your job search. They can also support you in interviewing, evaluating offers, and negotiating.
Peer Advisors
Trying to get up to speed on internships? Peer advisors are second-year students who can speak to internship recruiting from recent personal experience and answer specific questions, share lessons learned, and lead mock interviews.
Industry Specialists
Trying to figure out the difference between a PM and a PMM? Or how to package your experience for consulting? Industry specialists can give you insider insights and hands-on advice. They bring know-how in how to prepare a résumé, interview, and get hired in everything from consulting and financial services to social impact and product management. They can also offer networking suggestions and new ideas for target companies to consider.
Relationship-Based Recruiting
There is no sure way to predict where your next career opportunity will come from. That is why we offer many events throughout the year and many different ways to connect with potential employers:
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On-campus networking: Many firms of all stripes visit campus, for presentations, coffee chats, panels, and workshops, giving you plenty of opportunities to network with alumni and employers from top companies.
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On-campus recruiting: Top firms, from industries that include finance and consulting, host presentations and coffee chats on campus.
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CMG BEARS: Our online job bank connects students and alumni with job opportunities of all kinds.
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Informal opportunities: Students network with prospective employers at career panels, on-site visits, and alumni mixers and career chats.
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Alumni networking: Our 45,000+ alumni form a highly supportive community, eager to share insights, advice, and connections.
Side-stepping from Big Tech to direct impact
After taking what he calls the “typical engineer’s approach” to researching and applying to business school, Alex Berry, MBA 24, knows now that the “insights you get from spreadsheets and those you get from the heart provide different types of guidance.”
Take the Next Step
The Haas Full-time MBA is our flagship offering, designed to give students the tools to become leaders and earn their MBAs. Learn from world-renowned faculty as well as our truly global cohort of students. All this in the heart of Silicon Valley.